Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
- Europe’s Social Safety Net, and America’s - New York Times
- Top shelves
Every booklover has their favourite shop, and while it's true that many independents have been driven out of business by online sales and supermarket bestsellers, you still don't have to look too hard to find one that's thriving. To prove it, Sean Dodson chooses the 10 bookshops from around the world which he considers to be the fairest of them all
- thecoolhunter.net - A Book Store Made in Heaven
- YouTube - BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Clinton, Obama, King and Johnson | PBS
- FactCheck.org: Did Bill Clinton pass up a chance to kill Osama bin Laden?
- Maud Newton: Blog
- Bobby Fischer's American legacy. - By Ann Hulbert - Slate Magazine
Comments
Maybe I am a bit biased since I live in Portland, OR, but I have been to no finer bookstore in the world than Powell's. I'm suprised it wasn't mentioned
Charles,
I don't even live in Portland but having visited and been to Powell's I'd have to agree. It's better than any I've been to in this country at least. The closest thing we have in NYC is The Strand which is a labyrinth of used books. A treasure no doubt, but not as great as Powell's.
We're lucky in the "liberal" urban areas to have access to such places. It's the less liberal and especially the rural and suburban areas that have lost this great resource of knowledge and community. Just another symptom of the general dumbing down of intellect and the mainstreaming of the American identity. The only people who support local bookstores are dirty f'ing hippies and faggy intellectuals... oh, and liberal fascists.
Re: bookstores
The Powell's in Portland must be a lot better than the Powell's in Hyde Park in Chicago - there were two other bookstores in Hyde Park alone where like to spend time even more.
Bill Moyers is a class act - I can't think of any corporate media broadcast journalist who comes close.
BTW - the big chain bookstores are not all bad. If you live in a smaller town like I do, you cheer when a Barnes and Noble moves in. They may pressure smaller shops, but the breadth of ideas available improved dramatically in our entire county ( ~ 200,000 people).
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